Howto: Docker, Databases, and Dashboards to Deal with Your Data

So you just got something like and Arduino or Raspberry Pi kit with a few sensors. Setting up temperature or motion sensors is easy enough. But what are you going to do with all that data? It’s going to need storage, analysis, and summarization before it’s actually useful to anyone. You need a dashboard!

But even before displaying the data, you’re going to need to store it somewhere, and that means a database. You could just send all of your data off into the cloud and hope that the company that provides you the service has a good business model …read more

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Apple Pattern of Life Lazy Output’er (APOLLO) Updates & 40 New Modules (Location, Chat, Calls, Apple Pay Transactions, Wallet Passes, Safari & Health Workouts)

I started filling in the gaps to missing APOLLO modules. While doing this I realized there was some capability that was missing with the current script that had to be updated. As far as script updates go the following was done:Support for multiple data… Continue reading Apple Pattern of Life Lazy Output’er (APOLLO) Updates & 40 New Modules (Location, Chat, Calls, Apple Pay Transactions, Wallet Passes, Safari & Health Workouts)

Listening To Mains Power, Part 2

The electricity on the power grid wherever you live in the world will now universally come to you as AC. That is to say that it will oscillate between positive and negative polarity many times every second. The frequency of 50 or 60Hz just happens to be within the frequency range for human hearing. There’s a lot more than this fundamental frequency in the spectrum on the power lines though, and to hear those additional frequencies better you’ll have to do a little bit of signal processing.

We first featured this build back when it was still in its prototyping …read more

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Network and Application Usage using netusage.sqlite & DataUsage.sqlite iOS Databases

Two iOS databases that I’ve always found interesting (and probably should test more) are netusage.sqlite and DataUsage.sqlite. These two databases contain very similar information – one is available in a backup (and file system dumps) the other only in… Continue reading Network and Application Usage using netusage.sqlite & DataUsage.sqlite iOS Databases

Video of ‘From Apple Seeds to Apple Pie’ from Objective by the Sea – Now Available!

Videos have been posted from Objective by the Sea from this past November. My talk ‘From Apple Seeds to Apple Pie’ a pattern of life talk about my APOLLO tools is here.As always, my videos and presentations will always be available on the Resources pag… Continue reading Video of ‘From Apple Seeds to Apple Pie’ from Objective by the Sea – Now Available!

On the Twelfth Day of APOLLO, My True Love Gave to Me – A To Do List – Twelve Planned Improvements to APOLLO

My Christmas gift to you – improvements!More Queries – There is plenty more to come. There are more databases and many half-written queries that I have yet to add.Additional Testing – I want these to be as accurate as possible.BLOB/Protobuf Parsing – M… Continue reading On the Twelfth Day of APOLLO, My True Love Gave to Me – A To Do List – Twelve Planned Improvements to APOLLO